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Manager: The only employees who should receive bonuses this year are those who were exceptionally productive over the past year. Liang is an excellent account executive, but she works in a corporate division that has failed to meet its productivity goals for the year. Thus Liang should not receive a bonus this year.
8.
The reasoning in the manager's argument is flawed in that the argument
a
fails to take into account the possibility that the standards by which productivity is judged might vary across different divisions of a corporation
b
overlooks the possibility that a corporation as a whole can have a profitable year even though one division of the corporation does not
c
fails to justify its use of one group's performance as the basis for a conclusion about a wholly different group
d
reaches a conclusion about the performance of one member of a group merely on the basis of the performance of the group as a whole
e
takes for granted that an employee who has an unproductive year will not be exceptionally productive in subsequent years